3d printing business
The Convergence of Vision and Experience: AMS and AMUG
During the last few weeks, I spent time on the ground at both the Additive Manufacturing Strategies Forum (AMS) and the Additive Manufacturing Users Group (AMUG) meeting. What stands out…
3D Printing Financials: Velo3D Sees Rising Demand and Defense Growth, but Losses Persist
Velo3D (Nasdaq: VELO) is moving further into production-focused 3D printing, with growing demand from defense and aerospace customers shaping its strategy. The company is shifting beyond selling machines toward producing…
AMS 2026: The Gift of a Good Strategy
First things first, folks: if you’re planning on attending AMS 2026, February 24-26 in NYC, and you haven’t registered yet, you can do so here. We’ll consult some ghosts of…
From Hobby to Hustle: How the Prosumer 3D Printing Market Is Rewriting the Industry
When many hear 3D printing, they still think of hobbyists tinkering in garages, making figurines, models, or toys. But that image has changed. A new wave of users exists between…
Seek Success In Additive: Strawberry Fields
The paths to success in additive may appear limited, but this is only because of so much strategic replication and so many copycat businesses. One potentially lucrative path to additive…
Who’s Investing in 3D Printing in 2025? Potential Directions for AM Industry Consolidation
In the first part of this look at the general flows of capital into the additive manufacturing (AM) industry in 2025, Vanesa Listek did a masterful job of diagramming the…
Divergent Raises $290 Million: Beyond the Numbers
Divergent Technologies has raised $290 million in a Series E round, giving the firm a $2.3 billion valuation. The round included $250 million in equity capital and $40 million in…
Arun Jeldi’s American Dream: the Velo3D CEO on Where the Company, and Metal 3D Printing, are Headed
“I have a plan for 2050,” Dr. Arun Jeldi told me, “for how Velo3D can keep growing through that time, and longer. I want Velo3D to be a century-old company…
Printing Money Episode 31: AM Deals and Analysis with Fabian Alefeld, EOS
Printing Money Episode 31 is here! Danny’s guest for this episode is Fabian Alefeld (Director Business Development & Academy, Global Additive Minds | EOS North America, and Podcast Host, Additive…
3D Printing Financials: Protolabs Reports 3D Printing Dip, But Metal 3D Orders Grow
Protolabs (NYSE: PRLB) kicked off 2025 with a mixed but steady performance. Revenue remained close to expectations, profits dipped slightly from last year, and the company was profitable despite ongoing…
Velo3D Secures $22M Metal 3D Printing Powder Supply Deal with Amaero
Velo3D (OTCMKTS: VLDX) has signed a major new agreement with metal 3D printing powder manufacturer Amaero (ASX: 3DA). The five-year deal is valued at USD $22 million and centers around…
Aussie 3D Printing OEM AML3D Expands into UK Defense Market via BAE Systems Deal
The Australian original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of wire additive manufacturing (WAM) systems, AML3D, has made expansion into the US defense market the cornerstone of its business strategy since pivoting a…
Blake Teipel Passes the Torch as Essentium Shifts to Nexa3D’s California Hub
Five months after Nexa3D acquired Essentium, the integration process is well underway. Despite initial perceptions that Nexa3D might be sidelining Essentium and founder Blake Teipel, the reality is more strategic….
Bringing a Business Model from Prototype to Scale: Makelab CEO Christina Perla Discusses the Company’s Innovative Growth Strategy
“Being industrial designers, Manny and I, at first, planned to start a design firm. As we were building it out and taking on various client projects, there was an opportunity…
High Stakes, High Speed: KVG Acquires 15 Nexa3D HSE 3D Printers to Boost Military Tech
As 3D printing increasingly intersects with defense and military logistics, a new partnership between Nexa3D and mission support logistics firm KVG stresses the growing importance of this technology in strategic…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: November 19, 2023
Things are slowing down this week, but we still have a few webinars to tell you about. Read on for all the details! 3D Printing News Unpeeled Our Executive Editor…
EOS Set to Make a Mark at Additive Manufacturing Strategies 2024
Anticipation builds as the 2024 Additive Manufacturing Strategies (AMS) event approaches. Set to unfold from February 6-8, 2024, in New York City, this gathering represents the seventh consecutive year that…
3D Printing is Stuck in a Growth Cycle: Here’s What We Can Do About It
With the publication of Q2 market numbers for the additive manufacturing (AM) space, as well as the official rebranding of SmarTech Analysis to Additive Manufacturing Research (AMR), it’s time we…
Stratasys CEO Yoav Zeif Offers Insight into the Desktop Metal Merger
As a maelstrom begins to form around the merger of Stratasys (Nasdaq: SSYS) with Desktop Metal (NYSE: DM), company CEO Yoav Zeif is at the helm, steering the ship through…
Additive Manufacturing Strategies 2024 Ticket Prices to Increase July 10
After the success of this year’s event, Additive Manufacturing Strategies (AMS) is already set to make a big impact in 2024. The roster of speakers is filling up quickly, with…
Azul 3D’s CEO Churn Sees 3D Printing Vet John Hartner Takeover
After spinning a promising technology out of a Northwestern University lab, Azul 3D, Inc was poised to conquer the world of vat photopolymerization (VP). Its high area rapid printing (HARP)…
Consultant John Barnes on a Stratasys Merger: “We Have to Keep 3D Printing Human”
The additive manufacturing (AM) industry is on the cusp of some momentous merger activity coming to fruition. We do not know what will happen yet, but the consequences will be…
Xtellar: Braskem Spins off 3D Printing Materials Division into New Business
With $14 billion in revenues, Brazil’s Braskem is the largest petrochemical company in Latin America and the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, particularly polypropylene (PP). The giant has taken…
3D Printing´s Tip of the Iceberg Problem, Part 1
We’ve got a rather peculiar problem in Additive. I call this the tip of the iceberg problem and it stems from seven distinct factors. The high degree of strategic replication…
